Extracts principally from English Classics: showing that the legal suppression of M. Zola’s novels would logically involve the Bowdlerizing of some of the greatest works in English Literature

Vizetelly (Henry).    Privately Printed,  1888 First Edition   4to Original quarter cloth Boards with some wear and soiling, upper hinge cracked and end-papers browned, but a very good copy; with, loosely inserted, the four-page letter “Regina v. Vizetelly” (slightly foxed)  Published anonymously. Authors cited include Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Byron and Swinburne.  

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